A 33-year-old hit-and-run driver was sentenced to 18 years in state prison Tuesday for fatally striking a young pedestrian who was getting out of his car on a residential street in South Los Angeles.

David Lee Player Jr. had pleaded no contest to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter on Oct. 27.

The rented 2013 black Chevrolet Camaro Player was driving was going 80 to 100 mph when he killed Jerry Arredondo Jr. on Feb. 4, 2014, police said at the time.

Arredondo’s body flew some 70 feet into a tree. He died on impact.

After striking numerous parked vehicles, Player’s car was abandoned at the scene, and he and another man fled in a silver BMW that had been following the Camaro, police said.

Player hit and dip and lost control of the car, according to the prosecutor in the case. He was identified as a person of interest shortly after the crash, but was not arrested until Jan. 23, county inmate records show.

Player admitted special allegations of fleeing the scene of the accident and a previous conviction for a serious felony, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in announcing the sentence.

The prosecutor said Player’s DNA and personal belongings at the scene linked him to the crash.

The crash occurred on 105th Street east of Wadsworth Avenue, in a residential area of Green Meadows.

Arredondo was the oldest of four siblings, the Los Angeles Times reported the day after the crash.

“He was the best I had,” his mother, Aracelia Sandoval, told the newspaper in Spanish. “He loved to be with family.”